cross-grained
Example Sentences
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Here, everybody has a “cross-grained stubbornness and iconoclast’s temper.”
From Los Angeles Times
He wrote, “You possess all the attributes of a demagogue: a screeching, horrible voice; a perverse, cross-grained nature; and the language of the market-place.”
From Washington Post
The geologic mystery of the canyon is how the south-trending Colorado River made a sudden turn westward to carve its way, cross-grained, through four plateaus.
From Salon
In the end, you have little cross-grained pallets, which you sandwich together with jam.
From Washington Post
Perverse, obstinate, contrary, cross-grained, intractable, not amenable, in a dour sullen mood.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
